Name: Broken Barriers
Genre: Drama
Released: 01 Jan 1919
Rating: 5.00
Cast: Alice Hastings, Alexander Tenenholtz, Giacomo Masuroff, Billie Wilson, Sonia Radin

Overview

This 1919 silent is the first American film based on the same Sholem Aleichem stories as Fiddler on the Roof, but produced 50 years before the blockbuster musical. Unlike most adaptations of Aleichem’s work, Broken Barriers (Khavah) focuses not on Tevye the milkman, but on his daughter Khavah, who falls in love with the gentile boy Fedka and must navigate the reverberations from this with both her community and her family.

Year 1919

Studio Zion Films

Director Charles E. Davenport

Crew Irving B. Ruby (Cinematography), Nat Dorfman (Writers' Production), Sholom Aleichem (Writer), Jack Young (Cinematography), Meyer Kehlmann (Producer), Nat Dorfman (Editor)

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